Hypercar developer, author Amory Lovins to speak March 12

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By Diane Swanbrow
News and Information Services

Amory B. Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and
director of its high-profile Hypercar Center, will speak on "How Far
Can Technology Take Us: A Look at the Automobile," at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday (March 12) in Auditorium B, Angell Hall. The free, public
talk will be followed by a reception.

At 7 p.m., in the same location, Dean Daniel Mazmanian of the
School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) will facilitate a
panel discussion on environmental technology. Participants include
U-M associate professor Jonathan Levine, an expert on urban
transportation systems; John Decicco, a senior associate of the
Washington, D.C.-based American Council of Energy-Efficient Economy;
Chris White, Director of the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority; and
Barbara Richardson, a research scientist at the U-M Transportation
Research Institute.

"We're delighted to host Amory Lovins to kick off this
discussion," says Steven R. Brechin, associate professor of
environmental sociology and organizer of the forum. "He has been
working intensely with industry and government leaders here and
around the world to develop an ultralight hybrid electric vehicle
and, more generally, on the role technology will play in greening our
future."

One of the nation's foremost experts on energy, Lovins is a 1993
MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the author of 24 books, most recently
Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use. He was named by
the Wall Street Journal as one of 28 people in the world most likely
to change the course of business in the 1990s.

The forum is sponsored by the Environmental Theme Semester, with
support from LS&A and SNRE.